Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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